Woman buried for 48 hours
NZPA-AAP London A woman buried for 48 hours in a snowdrift has been pulled out alive, London newspapers reported yesterday. The woman was spotted by a girl aged 10, who ran 3km from the Yorkshire moors to get help. Phyllis Howell, aged 48, was taken to hospital with severe frostbite. “I just thank God she’s alive,” said her husband, Robert. Mrs Howell left home in Pelion, Halifax, on Friday afternoon and collapsed on the moors.
Mr Howell, an engineer, reported her missing when he got home that night and helped the police search
moors where drifts were more than a metre deep. They found nothing.
On Sunday, a group of schoolchildren out sledding on a seven-hectare farm at Warley, outside Halifax, stumbled across what they thought to be a bundle of clothes in the melting snow. When the “bundle” moved, they ran off frightened, except Amanda Park, who ran home to fetch her father, when she couldn’t move Mrs Howell, whose clothes were caught on barbed wire.
Mr Park called the police who rescued Mrs Howell. “She was in a terrible state with her legs blue and her hands swollen to twice the normal size,” Mr Park said.
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